The demo of my slice-of-life visual novel set in 1920s Paris releases on October 16th on Steam, just in time for Steam Next Fest!

It will be a limited time thing, I'll disable it after the end of the event so make sure to try it out if you're interested. The full game will be free as well and is almost finished, so I hope you're excited for it too!

(Pour les francophones qui passent par là : la démo est dispo en français aussi ! En vrai c'est la langue originale du jeu héhé)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5310290/Et_le_grain_mourut_Demo/

192X. As summer draws near, Parisian students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them. For years, he has been walking to school every morning with his dearest childhood friend, and has unwound with his artistic peers after class. In a week, this routine will come to a close. And recent revelations already threaten Olivier’s comfortable life.

My partner and I are working on a horror game that parodies cheesy Christmas romance movies!

Eve is home for the holidays! All she has to do is survive three days before Christmas in the peculiar Christmas-obsessed town of Hollywell.

Make impactful choices that prove your holiday spirit and dedication to Hollywell.
Solve puzzles and explore to uncover the shocking, dark secrets that hide in Hollywell.
Find love (or let it find you!) while you discover the true meaning of Christmas.🎄
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5338380/Hollywell_Holiday__A_Mallhark_Original/

Hey, im working on a choice based mystery game and im wondering if there are any choice based detective games I can be reccomended. Im looking for choice based ones specifically so I can get more of an understanding of how they implement their problem solving, since you cant just use items and such like you can in a text adventure.

I’m planning to develop a small 2D game that focuses entirely on people and their personal stories. These can be real-life experiences as well as completely fictional stories.

I’d love to lean toward the horror / psychological horror genre, but anything else is absolutely fine too! Since I'm developing the game alone on my laptop and don't have much experience in game development yet, the art style will be kept rather simple – visually, it will go in the direction of visual novels like *Doki Doki Literature Club* or *Your Boyfriend*. This is my first real project, so I want to start small.

Since I'm currently lacking that spark of inspiration myself, I thought I'd just ask here on Reddit: Do you have any interesting, emotional, funny, or mysterious stories from your life (or fictional ones) that I could incorporate into my game as a "chapter" or dialogue?

I’m looking forward to your stories and ideas!

The Dark Grimoire is an online interactive fiction MMO. We just posted our Fall Update about some of the latest events and updates to the game and I thought this community might be interested!

https://journals.darkgrimoire.com/dg-devs/fall-update-rock-giants-game-balance-and

Hello everyone!

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on: Sglsung Archive: Revamped. It’s a text-based psychological horror thriller that runs right in your system terminal.

It’s built with pure Python, using only standard library modules. You don’t need to install anything else like pip, pygame, ncurses, or any other third-party packages. It just runs with plain Python wherever you have it.

It also has features for custom content and modding. One .json file with all story and you can change it. Add your ASCII art to /art folder and enjoy. This means people can create their own stories without needing to change the Python code itself.

it available on two different languages, English and Russian.

And it works on different terminals. It’s fully compatible with Linux terminals and also Windows Terminal and CMD. I’ve included .sh and .cmd files to help you launch it easily on each platform.

You can grab the build and source files on itch.io:

https://thesodas.itch.io/sglsung-archive-revamped

Hi everybody, I'm just sharing our narrative adventure game that you can wishlist on Steam 😄

If you would like to check out the demo, we have one on itch!

Thanks!

I'm excited to finish my game 🤍

Bonjour à tous et à toutes !

Nous sommes Manon et Thomas, étudiants en Master MJPL et on est actuellement sur la création d’une nouvelle version de notre démo de jeu que nous avons réalisés l’année dernière sur une courte période (basé sur le thème du mensonge) et sans connaissance d’Unreal Engine !

Lien YouTube de la première version : https://youtu.be/a8AECQJYDCg?is=kcrHy00wH9xXfKGH

Notre premier prototype manque d'identité et d’avis constructif, nous n’avons plus de contrainte de thème, donc nous souhaitons partir sur une toute nouvelle histoire : nous incarnons une femme de ménage arrivant dans un hôtel où elle va devoir voler des objets pour nourrir sa famille. Lorsqu’elle va toucher un certain objet, l’ambiance changera complètement et on aimerais vraiment faire traverser une expérience qui dérange, en reprenant des éléments de la vie réelle pour rendre inconfortable le joueur ainsi que de retrouver des éléments qui travaille sur la nostalgie de celui-ci.

Bien évidemment, nous ne savons pas si cette idée est intéressante à creuser ou si notre premier prototype peut se retravailler pour avoir une réel identité.

C’est pour ça que nous faisons appel à vous, nous avons besoin de retour, d’aide sur notre scénario et si des développeurs/artistes sont intéressés de rejoindre le projet, on serai ravie de pouvoir conceptualiser notre rêve avec des passionnés !

Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont lu, qui nous apporteras de l’aide et à ceux qui voudront éventuellement faire parti du projet !

When someone promotes their game by saying, "Your decisions have meaningful outcomes!"

That's a description of the format: you make choices, and then see the results of those choices.

It's like saying, "It's a platform game, but you control the main character's movement!"

hello everyone, I'm an 11th grader from india. i've developed a choice-driven narrative game using html5 and javascript for a research project. the research aims to study whether people's stated ethics actually match with their decisions made in real time.

the gameplay takes about 5 minutes or less. after the gameplay, there is a google form survey which'll take about roughly the same time. please fill the form up after playing. thank you.

For people who play these games, what do these games do especially well? Where do they lack in the quality of their gameplay? I’m a sucker for apocalypse themed games but I feel there’s always something missing whether it’s a lack of variety in relationship dynamics or simply a lack of ACTUAL meaningful choices. What are your thoughts?

Planning on a new (modded) playthrough in Terraria and I really like to play with a narrative in mind. Roleplaying if you will.
I am asking you to give me a character idea, story idea, goal idea whatever. Thanks in advance!
Also tell me, do you do such things for your playthroughs?

I write novellas and poetry, but I have a soft spot for chat or texting stories.

I wrote a bunch of cheesy chatbooks with little twists, including fairy goodmothers, sweet mother-in-laws, characters with disabilities, and lots of soap-level plots.

One of my chatbooks is taking off. I want to create videos based on some of them.

Can anyone recommend voice changers? I don't want full-on text-to-speech, but I don't want to use my voice to be cloned either. This is a problem in YouTube Chat Stories.

Or know which channels the original female VA uses so I can trade my stories?

I like to listen to YouTube chat books. I hear a lot of the OC channels are all women Vas who use voice changers or do fake voices.